I have two raid 5 arrays here on IDE drives (each consiting out of 4 IDE disks). The first drive in the second array has 6 bad sectors / bad blocks on it, and during reconstruction after creating the array these bad blocks are found, and the disk is kicked out of the array (and the initial background resync is terminated). The rest of the disk is just fine, and its had these bad blocks since who knows how long without any problems is there any way to create the array, and just mark these blocks bad in the file system, as you would with a 'normal' drive? Any info is greatly apreciated, (ps, i did find some emails on the list about the same problem w/ scsi drives, but low level formatting the drive and causing the blocks to be relocated by the scsi hardware solved the problem there.. unfortunatly that dont work for my IDE drives ;-/) -- Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html